Testimonials

Thank you very much for everything the last few years, I enjoyed working with you and appreciate everything you did to help our business.

Doug Keller

Thank you so much for your WONDERFUL support FSN, I can’t tell you how much it means to know we have friends like you out there!

Alison Barrick

Bascom’s Chop House, together with the Bullard Family, have supported the Feather Sound News publication for 15 years because of its devotion and support of our community. This newsletter has helped form our area into the vibrant and successful community it has grown into and we hope for another 15 great years together with Feather Sound News and its readers.

Feather Sound News and Beyond has been running my “Common Sense Caregiving” column, for over a year now, that specializes in dementia care. The feedback I have received from their readers has truly been impressive. I would like to personally thank the staff of the “Feather Sound News and Beyond” for helping me reach out to the family and professional caregivers in their community, for these dementia-related diseases have no boundaries. I look forward to continuing our relationship of educating their readers on all types of dementia care.

Gary Joseph LeBlanc

I just wanted to extend our warmest best wishes to you/FSN for being such a great friend of CASA over the last year. We are thankful for your role in shining a spotlight on domestic violence issues and on the plights of too many families in our community face.

CASAMo V., Marketing Specialist

We like the distribution into the affluent neighborhoods that we may not otherwise be able to reach.

The fact that these are mailed and end up in the homeowners hands significantly increases the value and exposure that our advertisement receives. You offer a great tool for a service business like ours!

Don DollDoll Brothers Carpet Cleaning

Feather Sound News has been a great publication for us to get the word out about Adults Mentoring Children, a program of Gulf Coast Community Care. The reason I am sure of this is the fact that we have had calls from people who have responded to our press releases for volunteer mentors. We appreciate the way this publication supports non-profits. Thank you, Feather Sound News staff, for helping us help these children!

Susan RyanOutreach CoordinatorGulf Coast Community Care

Feather Sound Country Club has had a great relationship with the Feather Sound News for many years. Advertising is affordable and the staff makes the process both simple and personal. We are so excited to hear that they are expanding their circulation as well as having their own website. This will add even more value to their publication. We highly recommend using them for your advertising needs!

Melanie Spetrino, Executive AssistantFeather Sound Country Club

The Feather Sound News offers a wonderful opportunity to keep up with community events and the latest happenings in the Feather Sound area.

As the only church in the Feather Sound Community, we are very pleased by the opportunity to get the word out about our special events, Preschool, and worship.

Thanks to the “News” we can offer a place to connect in Feather Sound, the Carillon, and the surrounding area as we seek to serve the community.

Coalition Calls on Governor-elect and Legislature for Election Reforms

The 2018 election revealed many serious deficiencies in Florida’s elections process. Improperly designed ballots, broken voting machines, too few early voting days, a continuing failure to provide adequate minority language access to election materials and assistance at the polls for voters with limited English proficiency, improper denial of vote-by-mail ballots, polling locations illegally secured in gated communities, long lines at polling locations, and unfounded allegations of fraud were some of the most troubling problems. These voter suppression tactics disproportionately impact racial and language minorities, the elderly, and student voters.

Nothing is more fundamental to our democracy than the right to vote. A system of fair and open elections in which all qualified citizens — regardless of gender, race, socioeconomic status or any other category — may cast a vote and have it accurately counted is the backbone of our democracy.

Elections matter, and the voters of Florida deserve better. Each and every election must primarily be about the voters of Florida — their votes must be counted and our elections process protected. Our democracy depends upon it.

We, the undersigned, call upon the Governor-elect, the Legislature and local election officials to engage in an immediate and serious discussion of meaningful reforms to our electoral process and approve those reforms during the upcoming 2019 Legislative Session.

Our policy-makers should review key areas for improvement by engaging Floridians and the elections community in discussions of the timeline for voting incorporating early voting access, vote-by-mail receipt, provisional ballots, tabulation, audits, certification and recounts; the process of vote-by-mail signature match and cure; ballot design; and clear practices and procedures for election administration in the event of natural or man-made disasters.

Consideration of advancements in election administration should also be on the agenda including the funding of Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and automatic voter registration working toward the multi-agency technological support of same-day voter registration among others. We stand ready to assist you in this journey to craft improvements to make our elections more secure, fair, and transparent.

We are counting on the Governor-elect and legislators to approve these reforms, and others like them, during the upcoming Legislative Session. Florida should be leading the nation and indeed the world with a fair and efficient election process, where every citizens’ vote is counted. Floridians deserve no less.

ACLU of Florida
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Common Cause Florida
Florida Education Association
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
League of Women Voters of Florida